Luke Y. Thompson

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Dallas Observer, New Times (L.A.), The A.V. Club, Village Voice
For 520 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Luke Y. Thompson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Dragon Inn (1967)
Lowest review score: 0 Slackers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 204 out of 520
  2. Mixed: 228 out of 520
  3. Negative: 88 out of 520
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Luke Y. Thompson
    Men in Black II
    Delivers a quick buzz, lots of stuff to look at, and a totally nonnutritious joy that can only be attained with the aid of artificial flavorings and Yellow #5. In a nutshell, it's the perfect summer movie.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    An Unfinished Life
    Perhaps realizing that rare performances in snoozers like "The Horse Whisperer" and "The Last Castle" weren't doing him (Redford) any favors, he seems to have entered a new phase in his career, with a wealth of old man roles now open to him. He was very good in last year's "The Clearing;" he's better in this.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    K-PAX
    Isn't quite as offensive as it sounds, nor is it in any way rousing; Spacey and Bridges are watchable, but nothing more.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Price of Milk
    This sort of thing is the problem with making stuff up as you go along.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Secuestro express
    It's a skillfully made film, but not especially fun to watch, and the apparent thesis that poverty justifies such acts doesn't quite wash.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Titan A.E.
    Is it worth the goofy characters and weak story for the effects and action sequences? Absolutely.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Kingdom Come
    Everything leading up to the finale is funny and often heartfelt.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Nothing deeper than a stale retread, it seems. And this is coming from a critic who listed the original "Charlie's Angels" movie as one of the top five films of 2000.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Paradise Highway
    As intriguing as the combination of Binoche and Grillo might sound, it would be much more impactful if they shared the screen for more than a handful of scenes. As such, the movie begins with a bang, but it ends with a whimper.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Bartleby
    A key problem here is that the film is adapting a short story, and, as such, has to pad it out to feature length -- it still comes in at a scant 82 minutes, about 52 minutes too long.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Brother Bear
    Fortunately the film's humor kicks in with McKenzie Brothers Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas stealing the show as a dopey pair of moose. Could've done without Phil Collins's generic, annoying tunes.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    50 First Dates
    If you've never seen a Sandler movie, however, this isn't the one to start with. Proceed only if you're sure you like the guy.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Scary Movie
    Actually quite amusing, thanks mainly to a script that keeps the gags flying so fast that even though so many of them are bad, they're quickly followed by something new, and occasionally something good.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Chicken Little
    If Chicken Little were in 3-D, shown in a theme park as you sit in motion simulators, the lame gags might not be so much of a problem.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Elvira's Haunted Hills
    Don't go to this movie looking to be actually scared, but as a gothic romp it's surprisingly effective.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Dust Factory
    Turns out to be one of the most original and imaginative children's films in a long time.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Super Troopers
    It's technically a well-made film: Chandrasekhar, who directed, gives it the look of a studio feature on a sizably smaller budget. It's just the script that betrays its cast.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    High Crimes
    Film falls into the same trap as the book: a moderately interesting setup ultimately undone by an ending that makes the audience feel like fools for investing any sympathy with the characters.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Shallow Hal
    Fortunately for the brothers, when your protagonist is personified as Jack Black, you can get away with a lot.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Spriggan
    The best way to watch it is with a loaded bong, the volume turned down and the Orb cranked up on your stereo.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Great Raid
    When it comes to World War II movies, you may never have seen one like this before -- if only because it's like three different movies at the same time.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    xXx
    Doesn't hit a home run on every action sequence -- an early bit set in Colombia is too long and too disjointed -- but there are one or two bits in the movie's latter third that are guaranteed to hook action fans.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Haunted Mansion
    The movie at times feels like an eternal cycle of the nine-minute ride, which loses its luster after 123 of those minutes. It offers you this chilling challenge—find a way out! Better yet, refrain from being the mortal foolish enough to enter in the first place.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Girl Next Door
    Best of all, in this movie about high school boys, the high school boys sound and look quite authentic (Paul Dano and Chris Marquette are outstanding in this regard), not watered down as would be the norm.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Sordid Lives
    It's composed of really long scenes that are mostly dialogue, with transition action imagined or implied only. Couldn't we go outside for at least one scene?
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Man on Fire
    That there's moral ambiguity to his actions represents some sort of step up from the cinematic norm. Alas, Christopher Walken has very little to do as Creasy's best buddy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Nun II
    At least the jump scares are effective, especially in IMAX theaters where the headrests rumble every time Valak makes a sudden move. That, and a couple of decent makeup tricks are pretty much all The Nun II has. The character deserves better, and so do you really.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Game of Their Lives
    Unlike some other soccer movies, there's no fancy editing -- excitement is generated strictly by the actual choreography and the commentary of an English announcer.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Hollywood Homicide
    When the movie works, it gleefully skewers the clichés of the buddy cop genre... When it doesn't work, it's exactly what it purports to be lampooning--a lame, boring cop buddy movie.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just Like Heaven
    Unfortunately, the movie fails to fully make sense, which may be because it's based on a French novel (If Only It Were True by Marc Levy).
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just Friends
    Where are our Tracy/Hepburn screwball combos? Part of the appeal of "Wedding Crashers" was that Isla Fisher truly did have the comedic chops to match Vince Vaughn, and Just Friends suggests that Reynolds and Faris have potential greatness together too. Just not so much in this film.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Deliver Us from Eva
    Not that there aren't funny moments in the film, but they're cobbled together so awkwardly that you'd never suspect the director had made a film before.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Seed of Chucky
    It's all fairly brilliantly twisted, but it seems that series creator Don Mancini has utterly given up on scares -- there's only one decent shock toward the very end.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Breakin' All the Rules
    Writer-director Daniel Taplitz seems to be trying to invoke classic screwball with this convoluted setup, but it plays like mediocre sitcom.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    28 Days
    As ridiculous as it all is...it's somehow eminently watchable.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Ringer
    These guys are laugh-out-loud funny, not because they're being belittled, but because they're finally getting a chance to show a sense of humor onscreen.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Secret Window
    This is fun for a while, but the ending is so ridiculous, and obvious, as to sully all the small joys that come before it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Hoot
    Your individual tolerance for Jimmy Buffett music will determine how well all the scenes set to his music go down.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Da Vinci Code
    All in all, a respectable and predictable adaptation.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Simian Line
    Since we know most of this cast is capable of acting, one must assume they received little instruction. Even if they did, who could blame them for not listening? After all, they are dealing with a script that tries to play scenes featuring drunken ghosts with silly accents for tragedy.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Saw
    It's brutal horror, where anyone can die at any time, and gorehounds will love it. Average folks may find it too intense.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    The scenes involving just him (Carrey) are funny and full of life. All the other scenes are not.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Break-Up
    Is The Break-Up worth your time? Let's put it this way: Whenever Vaughn is onscreen, it is. When he's not, it ain't. The movie's a comedy, but it's also about a breakup, so it gets a bit maudlin toward the end.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Must Love Dogs
    The movie does find fresh ways to tweak the formula, making it more than the sum of its broad strokes.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Revolution OS
    Ultimately, the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks, if you're up for that sort of thing.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Crazy in Alabama
    Feels like two films that aren't closely related enough, either tonally or narratively, to warrant their intertwining.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Singing Detective
    Try to forget about Michael Gambon in Potter's original BBC miniseries; Keith Gordon's film is its own thing, full of Brechtian artifice and oddball humor -- Mel Gibson's old man act in particular.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Bully
    Like the recent "Baise-moi," Bully is a whole lot of shock and titillation trying to pretend it's saying something. Unlike the French import, however, there's no awareness of its own absurdity, nor anything for the audience to care about in the slightest.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Club Dread
    The Broken Lizard types bring the best out of Paxton, only to abandon him in the second half and focus on themselves. A bit more humility might have served them in better stead.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Gigi & Nate
    For a solid portion of its running time, Gigi & Nate at least delivers what it promises: a young man and his monkey—to be more specific, a young, newly quadriplegic man and his service monkey.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Pope's Exorcist
    It’s impossible to take any of this remotely seriously, or find it particularly frightening. But it is its own sort of fun, at least for a while.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    50 Cent sounds articulate in his raps, but as a lead actor, he talks like his mouth is filled with food.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Luke Y. Thompson
    Click
    Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    The skeleton's a hoot, and the score, credited to the solo-monikered Valentino, is pitch-perfect. Some judicious editing would make a huge improvement, however, because even at 90 minutes, it feels like Blamire's stretching the joke a bit thin.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just Looking
    Deserves more than just a look.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    EuroTrip
    The opening credits -- animated sequences that spoof airline safety cards -- are a high point, but if you're not a prude, the rest of the flick ain't bad either.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Kicking & Screaming
    This might be the most predictable movie of the year, but at least it delivers everything you expect it to.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Down and Derby
    You will regret paying money to see something that unfolds rather like something you'd watch on TV when you're ill and bedridden and confronted with nothing else but daytime soaps.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Mean Machine
    If you have any desire to see this movie, you really should go rent "The Longest Yard" instead. It's available on DVD, and the '70s hairdos alone are worth the rental price.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Sleeping Dogs
    Crowe is quite capable of being compelling even when doing banal stuff—the highlight here is a variation on the “falling off the wagon” trope, as he captures the sheer delight of a guy who has literally forgotten how much he loves whiskey. The end point, like the movie’s, feels inevitable, but the journey there contains small joys.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Scorpion King
    Chuck Russell doesn't make masterpieces -- he makes good B movies ("The Mask," "The Blob"), and The Scorpion King more than ably meets those standards.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    A Slipping-Down Life
    Taylor and Pearce just aren't believable.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Closer You Get
    The latest entry in the "next 'Full Monty'" sweepstakes.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Blood: The Last Vampire
    It feels like a pilot episode for the most expensive made-for-cable cartoon ever produced, and if you expect quantity (or closure) for your $8 ticket, you may feel shorted. The quality, however, is unlikely to be disputed.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 90 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Jacket
    The first great film of 2005.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Murder Mystery 2
    It’s a set-up too contrived to feel real, yet not quite over-the-top enough to be hilarious.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Hostage
    Certainly delivers violence and heroics, but not in a way everyone is going to enjoy -- it's brutal and harrowing.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Walking Tall
    Unlike the original, there's no R-rated grit and no familial executions -- gotta get the young-skewing WWE fan base in there.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Ricky Stanicky
    In the wrestling ring, Cena used to wear a shirt which read “Rise Above Hate,” and indeed, he does so here. It would be better if he found a project where he didn’t have to.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 80 Luke Y. Thompson
    Head of State
    Chris Rock gets to direct himself, and as a result is finally starring in a laugh-out-loud funny movie.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Ring Two
    The movie works while you watch it, with plenty of scares both sudden and psychological.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Caveman's Valentine
    Deserves an A for ambition, but the final product is a pastiche of too many predecessors.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Sex with Strangers
    As it stands, there's some fine sex onscreen, and some tense arguing, but not a whole lot more.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Malibu's Most Wanted
    Kennedy is funny, but too cartoonish to ever identify with -- Diggs and Anderson are the real stars of the show, and need more screen time.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Luke Y. Thompson
    Poker Face
    When the entire theme is about misdirection, then yes, assessing how enjoyable the swerves and bluffs are, both narratively and conceptually, feels entirely appropriate. And they all too often feel like letdowns.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Animal
    A film you can dump your kids off at the mall to see in order to get peace and quiet for an hour and a half.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    9 Songs
    This movie is, essentially, porn, and whether it's a turn-on is likely to be subjective to each viewer. Those who find traditional porn too artificial should be pleased.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Chariot
    From the cast to its odd, intriguing locations, Sigal was successful in assembling many of the right ingredients. Unfortunately, they lack a chef who knows how to properly combine them, whether that’s to create a meaningful sense of cohesion or to truly create the kind of beautiful chaos that makes Lynch such a mesmerizing source of inspiration.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Last Castle
    Lurie's politics aside, it's astonishing that a man who once reviewed films keeps churning out movies full of cinema's most hollow clichés; indeed, he turns out stuff that's even more disjointed and improbable than the most mediocre fare.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 100 Luke Y. Thompson
    Final Destination 3
    It makes it clearer than ever before that these films are comedy. Granted, the sick kind of comedy that involves laughing at stupid people being ripped in half, but we know there are plenty of you out there.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    American Wedding
    Against all odds, the American Pie movies have actually gotten a little better each time out, though that's certainly not to say that they're, uhhh, "masterpieces."
    • 43 Metascore
    • 67 Luke Y. Thompson
    Retribution
    Unlike Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, what you’re going to get from this box of travel sweets is usually something you can expect. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be effectively tasty in the moment.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Eternal
    Eternal promises kink and delivers next to nothing.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Bones
    Full of fits and starts, it never really gets going, stalling at every turn without even giving us enough of what we paid to see -- Snoop Dogg and gore.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Drive Me Crazy
    Actually quite agreeable, but only because of a group of actors who are able to salvage the paper-thin material.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Joe Somebody
    It isn't until Joe starts getting confident and cocky that Allen starts to feel a little more natural in the role, and by then the movie's plot has all but evaporated into a series of wispy gags that barely register.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Jurassic Park III
    At its best, Jurassic Park III is eerily similar to some of the more recent dinosaur-themed video games on the market.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Ed Gein
    It's all a bit silly and predictable, but maybe that's the point.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    High Tension
    High Tension often feels like a ’70s exploitation movie in the best sense; unfortunately, the ending is so bad that it mars everything that comes before.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Memory
    It’d be nice to think that the forgettable nature of Memory was a deliberate irony. Then we could grant it bonus points for cleverness, rather than an average grade for just being bland.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Luke Y. Thompson
    Black Hawk Down
    Doesn't just kick your ass. It pummels your entire body; it leaves you trembling.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
    The whole thing is best enjoyed while really drunk.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Agent Cody Banks
    Essentially the movie's an excuse to show off cool gadgets and co-star Angie Harmon's cleavage.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Drillbit Taylor
    Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless Army deserter and con man, able to fool people into believing he's both a substitute teacher and a master of hand-to-hand combat.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 80 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Salton Sea
    As a gallery of the grotesque, however, the cinematic equivalent of a Joe Coleman painting or Adam Parfrey publication, The Salton Sea is a blast.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Luke Y. Thompson
    House Party
    To its credit, and this isn’t damning with faint praise, the new House Party is frequently very funny. (The R-rated language and creative insults are a great asset, even if they might restrict the potential teen audience.) What it has in humor, though, it lacks in pace.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    All the ladies get repeatedly naked, which, after all, is why you're going to go see it. And there's nothing wrong with that.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Chumscrubber
    Either a bit more humor or a bit more heart could exponentially improve things.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Kaena: The Prophecy
    Kaena resembles the Jim Henson fantasy in many ways, from its visual imagination and creature design to the hideousness of its more humanoid characters (except Kaena, who's a babe) and the general mediocrity of the voice acting.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Falling for Christmas
    It’s silly, sitcom-y, and impossible to call “good,” but Falling For Christmas is the kind of bad that feels almost appealing.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Max Keeble's Big Move
    While some of Max's pranks are exhilarating and funny -- the movie takes too long setting things up and, once the pranks are over, dawdles to its inevitable conclusion.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Wicker Park
    If Alfred Hitchcock were retarded, lobotomized, and freshly dug up, he might possibly c--- out a movie like this one.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Clockstoppers
    Its most redeeming quality is that it's so inoffensive parents can feel OK about taking kids.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Twin
    Generally speaking, the best kinds of story surprises illuminate the material; the worst simply laugh at you for falling for red herrings. Much of what happens in The Twin bounces back and forth between those ends of the spectrum.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Margaret Cho: Assassin
    It's hard to see why her audience seems so much more rabid than that of other, funnier comics. The secret seems to be in her appeal to the gay community.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Beautiful Creatures
    For folks who like a genuinely tense suspense film with heavy doses of black humor, however, this ought to do it.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Mine
    The co-director/co-writer team of Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are none too subtle, and their reliance on hallucination sequences suggests a (misguided) lack of faith in Hammer to pull this off by himself.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Saw II
    Saw II, despite the swift turnaround time, improves on all of the first film's problem areas, while leaving intact everything that was good about the concept.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Man Who Cried
    There's nothing particularly wrong with this whole setup; it's just very by-the-numbers.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    Director Dwight Little, who has made many mediocre films as well as the gleefully gory Robert Englund version of "The Phantom of the Opera," gets at least one thing right -- he really does take time to establish the characters.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Delia's Gone
    James does a decent job with what he’s been given, but it’s never clear exactly what the movie hopes to do with his character. Is this just another crime and punishment retread? Or is it meant to serve as a metaphor for dealing with grief while disabled? It’s too broad to work as the latter, and too unhurried for the former.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Angel Eyes
    A unique and striking film for at least the first two-thirds of its running time, after which it turns, all too sadly, predictable and mundane
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just a Kiss
    Not just another disposable romantic comedy, but an ambitious, overreaching mess.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Bringing Down the House
    The movie's not without moments of genuine humor--no comedy starring Steve Martin could be--but sad to say, his Oscar-hosting gig two years ago was funnier.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    High Heels and Low Lifes
    This movie is every bit the mess its title makes it sound.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Luke Y. Thompson
    Get Away If You Can
    One hopes the entire process made for great couples therapy, because watching it certainly doesn’t.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    When Will I Be Loved
    It's unfortunate that, nudity and all, this is one of Toback's absolute worst efforts.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
    What this Reagan movie really needed was . . . more Reagan. None of his admirers have his charisma, and none of the footage here is surprising. Fox News could easily produce a better film.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Final Destination
    A waste of a decent premise.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Cry_Wolf
    This was a better movie back when it was called "Gossip" . . . oh, wait, no -- that one sucked too.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Luke Y. Thompson
    Pinocchio
    Far be it from us to actively reveal what scuttles Zemeckis’ film, but let’s just say that it seems like the people who made its biggest creative choices have more wood for brains than the character they brought to life.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Adding R. Lee Ermey to the Leatherface clan was a masterful move.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Taking Lives
    The film's finale is truly egregious, a laugh-out-loud combination of ludicrousness and sadism that someone somewhere probably found scary, assuming they never saw a thriller before.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Chronicles of Riddick
    It's fun stuff, but nowhere near as cool as it should be.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Bad Boys II
    In general, Bad Boys II is Bay unleashed. This is a good thing when it comes to action sequences--fans of excessive spectacle will definitely dig the car chases that involve flying cadavers. It's a bit less of a good thing between said moments of spectacle.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Never Die Alone
    The film has a gritty, grainy look that matches the book's raw texture, and keeps the violence and drug abuse from ever looking slick or appealing.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Paparazzi
    A surprisingly efficient B-grade revenge pic.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Rugrats Go Wild
    The animation looks good, especially when CG-enhanced, but the Rugrats babies' constant snot jokes, bug-eating and "cute" mispronunciations grate after a while.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Curse of Bridge Hollow
    Watching it feels like attending a Halloween party and never striking up a conversation with anyone; you can only look at the decorations for so long before getting bored.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Cell
    King's decision to co-write the script and turn it into a CliffsNotes version of The Stand only makes things worse.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Gothika
    Delivers genuine scares.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    Robert Rodriguez and his kids conjure up a charming 3-D fantasy.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Kickboxer: Vengeance
    This reboot smartly doesn't try to escalate the material to bigger and better status, keeping things small and scrappy and relying on the fighters to be the best special effects.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Freddy vs. Jason
    To the fan of ’80s slashers, this return to glorious excess is a beautiful thing.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Riding the Bullet
    Imagine a feature-length version of the "Large Marge" sequence from "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and you won't be too far off, only that was scarier.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Actually boasts a decent script with character development, a sense of pace and some well-drawn supporting roles.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 90 Luke Y. Thompson
    Domino
    Sure, it's amusing, but it isn't much more.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Analyze That
    Everyone seems more relaxed this time around, including director Harold Ramis, who was presumably less intimidated now that he knows De Niro can be really funny and draw a large audience to a comedy.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Bye Bye Man
    If you miss the slasher icons of old and have little patience for the reboot attempts they get periodically, it's nice to see at least a worthy attempt to add to that pantheon.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Machine
    Hamill, however, is the MVP, continuing to deliver some of his best work as an older man. When he leaves the action for a spell, the energy leaves the movie.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Country Bears
    This film is just too damn weird to pass up, and for the blacklight crowd, way cheaper (and better) than Pink Floyd tickets.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Ted Bundy
    As Bundy, Michael Reilly Burke (Octopus 2: River of Fear) has just the right amount of charisma and menace. It's his performance that makes the movie, giving a relatively shallow script more depth and character nuances than likely existed on the page.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Rebound
    Rebound isn't funny.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Æon Flux
    Kusama offers moments of inspiration, but it frustrates like hell that she couldn't nail it completely.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Other Brother
    Mandel Holland's direction is uninspired, and his scripting unsurprising, but the performances by Phifer and Black are ultimately winning.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Jeepers Creepers II
    Salva directs cheap thrills effectively, but his own apparent desires come off more frightening than any winged demon.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    A Man Apart
    Standard revenge shenanigans ensue, with more boo-hoo numbers from Vin, who ain't up to it -- he hasn't been this lame since, uh, ever.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Several visual nods to the game are amusing, but it's tough to recommend the movie to anyone who doesn't already own a PlayStation.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Part female revenge flick, part Saturday Night Live skit, part courtroom drama, and part religious tent revival, this movie never congeals into anything worth watching.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Who Is Cletis Tout?
    What it lacks are solid performances, save Slater's game attempt to take everything seriously.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Fast Food Fast Women
    One of those genially paced, character-driven indies, and succeeds as such very well.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Stolen Summer
    For better or worse -- plenty of both, in fact --it's a movie that has a coherent vision. It's a shame that vision just doesn't happen to be very interesting.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 90 Luke Y. Thompson
    Resident Evil
    Jovovich isn't at her best, but that's mainly because her character is required to be in shock most of the movie, except when she remembers that she's a Charlie's Angel, or happily sheds clothing to maintain that R-rating. Frankly, most of us can live with that.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Two Can Play That Game
    Too bad very few of these high jinks are actually funny -- the outtakes at the end of the film suggest a more relaxed ensemble vibe that the film proper was unable to retain.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Bollywood/Hollywood
    It's not a movie one feels like hating, but the Hindi musical numbers aren't enough to elevate this over, say, "Pretty Woman."
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Hide and Seek
    May steal from the best, but it does it so badly and obviously that it has to depend upon gratuitous shock-cuts and soundtrack stings to elicit any kind of reflex-action fright from the viewer.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Man of the House
    It's not a terrible premise -- It is, however, terribly executed.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
    The movie gets bogged down in dull dialogue, despite some truly impressive special effects and a hilariously silly CG devil who closely resembles his counterpart from the PlayStation game Tekken 2.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Perfect Score
    The heist itself is quite nicely filmed herein, but unfortunately, getting to it requires sitting through a bunch of noisy, fussy crap, from the overly busy soundtrack to the irritating narration of stoned guy Leonardo Nam.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Friday After Next
    Director Marcus Raboy hasn't made a bad movie, exactly -- just one that seems to have forgotten its own jokes, much as those who watch it will forget everything about it a week later, stoned or not.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Glass House
    While the specifics of the plot are often as fragile as an actual glass house, those looking for a good night of disposable entertainment will find it here.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Haunted Mansion
    This Mansion should satisfy, at least until the disappointing climax.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    Ghosted
    There’s a funny notion in Chris Evans effectively playing a damsel in distress, but like everything else in Ghosted, the filmmakers have no idea how to play it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Russian Doll
    If you peel away the surface of this movie, one is left with not much at all.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    Like its predecessor, this cartoon adaptation is a bit too all over the place for its own good, never entirely clear on whether to play as parody or homage.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Doom
    The movie ultimately cops out by culminating in a fistfight between two humans, with nary a cyborg missile-throwing devil in sight.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Man from Toronto
    For a character-driven “mistaken identity” comedy that lives or dies based on the humorous interactions between two A-list leads, its lousy script barely constitutes life support.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    End of Days
    Nothing worse than a silly movie that takes itself seriously, that bores us to death while we wait for the finale that comes too late.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
    It's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over, but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 10 Luke Y. Thompson
    Lansdown
    Lansdown has a pretty good score by Atli Orvarsson... Nope, nothing else nice to say.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    All About the Benjamins
    Plays like a knockoff of Michael Bay's already derivative and much more fun "Bad Boys," only with even less plot. It also recalls the worst qualities of John Singleton's mean-spirited "Shaft."
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Undead
    Initially artsy, then campy, then tense, it would have worked better if writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig had kept everything serious and let the inherent absurdism of zombie attacks speak for itself without additional ironic comment.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Elektra
    The fights are mostly cool, save the final one with too many quick cuts, and the morphing graffiti and tattoos are nifty. If only the rest of it weren't so stupid.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Bubble
    Even if the characters on screen didn’t become better artists during the pandemic, then Apatow at least should have. With The Bubble, he seems to have mistaken jokes about moviemaking for moviemaking that shouldn’t be taken seriously.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Collateral Damage
    Feels dated in the post-9/11 world. But it would have felt passé and unnecessary regardless; it's the sort of film Michael Dudikoff, Chuck Norris and their ilk cranked out on a near-monthly basis when Reagan was president.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Diamonds
    As by-the-numbers as VCR instructions. And, inexplicably, it's also a blast.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Chasing Papi
    No doubt Fox wants to tap into those Latina dollars, but you've got to spend money to make money, and this shoddily cheap-looking product ain't gonna do it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 58 Luke Y. Thompson
    Five Nights at Freddy's
    Yes, there are kills, but they’re often as comical as they are scary, and deliberately so. It’s a fun gateway horror movie for kids—and the easily scared who want to test their limits lightly.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Crazy as Hell
    Utilizing lots of complicated, well-choreographed steadicam shots, La Salle directs with confidence -- this may yet be his true calling.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Catch That Kid
    Lackadaisical feel of the film; Freundlich is unable to generate much suspense.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Amityville Horror
    Yes, there are more cheap shocks this time around, and they're fun to watch, but you'll have forgotten most of them by the time you make it out to your car.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Battle of Shaker Heights
    LaBeouf's got the beef, and his inevitably bright future may be the only reason anyone will ever look back on The Battle of Shaker Heights.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Mindhunters
    The score sucks and the acting is weak, but there are times when certain moviegoers just feel the need to stare far-fetched, blood-drenched death in the eye and laugh. It's here, so have at it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Big Momma's House
    If Big Momma's House isn't as bad as you imagined, then you've no imagination at all.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Wedding Planner
    Think "My Best Friend's Wedding," subtract gay best friend, dorky karaoke scene, charm, and any hint of malice or conflict, and you've got it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Soul Plane
    A scattershot "urban" take on "Airplane!," Soul Plane misfires with its jokes at least as often as it hits (and less often than Snoop Dogg hits a joint), but when it works, laughs are generated.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Wedding Date
    It seems like a slam-dunk pitch -- "Pretty Woman" with the genders reversed -- but there's one major problem: The whole hooker-fantasy bit is much more of a guy thing.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Only Quaid, as a semiretarded horny robot, and Cleese as a fussy chauffeur hologram seem to get it. Even Murphy, as the titular nightclub big shot in outer space, forgets to be actually funny until the climax.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Beyond Borders
    It's not a bad film, exactly, just a confused one, too violent to be a straight romance and too focused on aid relief to be an ass-kicking action flick.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Swordfish
    If you like stuff breaking in THX, Swordfish delivers like no other this year. Bring earplugs.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Wrong Turn
    Horror fans will have a blast, though it's unlikely anyone else will be won over.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Games People Play: New York
    Rent a porno instead; it'll be less exploitative. God help us, two more of these things are planned.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Boogeyman
    Director Stephen T. Kay (The Last Time I Committed Suicide) busts off some cool shots, and Eric Kripke's story is pretty sound until the finale. Worth a look for horror fans, but nothing classic.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    In the Mix
    All of the plot developments seem half-hearted -- which is a shame, because the star has the charm to succeed if given a better movie.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Honeymooners
    No less amusing than an average sitcom, but that's certainly not reason enough to buy a ticket.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Cursed
    It's a mess, but it isn't as bad as you think.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    House of 1000 Corpses
    If your expectations aren't too high, there's lots of cool shit on-screen.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 33 Luke Y. Thompson
    God Is a Bullet
    Cut God Is A Bullet down to a tight 90 minutes, and it might at least consistently deliver the cheap thrills and nihilistic kick it only occasionally achieves.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Gunner Palace
    Why don't we see this kind of thing on the news every night? Undoubtedly military censorship comes into play, but probably more so it's the prevailing notion that talking-head shoutfests stacked with pundits bring in the ratings, while actual field reporting costs more money.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Luke Y. Thompson
    Pootie Tang
    The overall film is hideously grating, thanks to an inconsistent look, animated titles all over the place, excessive explanatory commentary and abrasive R&B videos inserted throughout.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    In Search of Peace
    History buffs will find this film lacking, and it isn't really deep enough to educate the rest of us as thoroughly as it should.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    First Daughter
    Part of the problem is that this First Daughter is modeled on good-girl Chelsea Clinton; a movie based on our current two party-girls-in-chief trying to embarrass their reformed alcoholic dad would be far more fun.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Life of David Gale
    Some of this stuff should give you some good laughs. Unfortunately, the film's not a comedy, and once the conservative-bashing wears off, the alleged thriller elements kick in. Too bad that for you, the viewer, there's still another hour to go.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Cave
    There's no reason to see this film in a theater -- you'll hate yourself for paying full price. Plus, you'll need beer, and lots of it, to appreciate the movie properly.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Love in the Time of Money
    What keeps Love in the Time of Money from being truly awful is the fact that the actors give it their all -- they may be in contrived situations, but by golly they'll make the best of them.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Waiting...
    Many of the dilemmas that are established never pay off, and there is no clear protagonist or antagonist. To make matters even murkier, the movie is poorly shot in visually uninteresting locations with constant soft focus. That said, it's also damn funny.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 16 Luke Y. Thompson
    Purple Hearts
    Purple Hearts would be a lot more interesting if it interrogated the specific moments of weakness that attract Cassie to Luke, but that’s far too complex an idea to explore in this kiddie pool of sentimentality.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Where the Heart Is
    A top-notch cast compensates for dubious credibility.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Driven
    Stallone's script is well structured, though the jaw-droppingly banal dialogue gives us little reason to care.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    Well, Sanaa Lathan's in there somewhere as the smart and sexy ass-kickin' chick, but it's really all about the monster disembowelments, which happen often.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Swimfan
    Every plot point is obvious a mile away to anyone who's ever seen a film, and made even more obvious by the fact that the camera blatantly points out clues shortly before they're put to use.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 29 Metascore
    • 10 Luke Y. Thompson
    Snow Dogs
    Snow Dogs may simply be a stupid waste of your time. But if you know the source, it's an abomination.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Lost Girls
    After watching, you may well wish that Peter Pan could be re-copyrighted to be kept out of the hands of anyone inclined to make this much of a mess of it.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Just Married
    Dude, where's the script? Just Awful.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Perfect Man
    It's a lame Heather Locklear romantic comedy and a lame Hilary Duff romantic comedy all in one!
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Garfield
    If it weren't for Murray, there'd be nothing at all to the film, which forgets all conventional notions of story or characterization.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Crossroads
    Highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply, but those who loved "Cool as Ice" have at last found a worthy follow-up.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 67 Luke Y. Thompson
    Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
    This is cinema at its most punk rock—a raucous, unpolished, cheap, sacred-cow shredding middle finger to the mainstream with just enough raw talent inside to keep it from being dismissable.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Fog
    Less fun than "Cry_Wolf" and "Venom," if that's possible.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Taxi
    It would take the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to get great performances out of Jimmy Fallon, Queen Latifah, and supermodel Gisele Bündchen, and Tim, you're no Stanley.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Shadow Hours
    Shadow Hours must stand simply as an impressive B movie. Compared with what we've seen lately, however, that doesn't seem like a bad achievement by any means.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    American Outlaws
    So desperate are the filmmakers to create a "hip" western that they try to cram it with action sequences that aren't very exciting.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    A Cinderella Story
    Duff isn't exactly known for complex fare, but even "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" was way better than this.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Stealing Harvard
    No one in a McCulloch movie is ever normal -- most of the humor comes from characters saying or doing the weirdest thing you could possibly come up with in any given circumstance, and if that kind of humor's your bag, there's frequently a lot to enjoy in the bizarre antics of Green and Jason Lee,
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Venom
    The final showdown between sole survivor and killer is sufficiently well done that you wonder why the rest didn't measure up.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Dragonfly
    Joe Morton, Linda Hunt and Kathy Bates show up in supporting roles, only to have Costner's flagging energy drag them down, too.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Me Time
    It’s not just that more timely humor would do better; it’s that most comedy fans would probably rather be watching MacGruber again. Instead of sitting down for Me Time, do that, and hope that Hart and Wahlberg figure out a proper story next time that gives their chemistry somewhere to go.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Enough
    You probably saw this film the last time around, when it was called "Sleeping With the Enemy." This one merely adds a better car chase and more ass-kicking.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Luke Y. Thompson
    A Sound of Thunder
    Shoddy and ridiculous.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    Definitely merits its R rating with a fearless approach that will earn genuine laughs as it turns a few stomachs. Yes, a Rob Schneider movie that's funny. Strange but true.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Poor White Trash
    Hilarity should ensue, but it doesn't.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    My Baby's Daddy
    Every bit as pathetic and unfunny as it looks.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Darkness Falls
    Once you get past the inherent silliness of the premise, what we've got here is actually a deft little chiller, stylishly directed despite the so-so cast.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Half Past Dead
    This lame hostage movie doesn't even deliver for Seagal fans.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Luke Y. Thompson
    Children of the Corn
    There’s no reason a movie with this premise couldn’t be better. Just not in these folks’ hands.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Body
    It's a heartfelt and powerful examination of faith that no serious student or enthusiast of theology or philosophy should miss.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Soul Survivors
    The film was cut down from an R rating to get a PG-13, but even if it had full-on Eliza Dushku nudity -- and it doesn't have anything close -- Soul Survivors would still suck.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Marci X
    A romantic comedy with neither humor nor sparks between the leads, Marci X attempts to lampoon gangsta rap clichés so obvious they feel ten years old -– “Malibu's Most Wanted” brought more to the table.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Underclassman
    Some fairly standard shenanigans ensue, and when the clichéd high school culture clash stuff stops, there's clichéd cop movie stuff going on.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    Outta Time
    The budget is low and the acting grade C at best, but director Lorena David stages one or two genuinely impressive stunts, and the script, by newbies Scott Duncan and Ned Kerwin, manages to skillfully maintain the plot's central mystery all the way to the end.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Gigli
    So how bad, in the final analysis, is Gigli? The best that can be said is that it doesn't beat out "The Ladies Man" as the most abrasively awful film of the past five years, nor does it top "Battlefield Earth" for sheer misguided lunacy.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Wash
    If it had anything that even approached the vaguest vicinity of a plot, The Wash might be a cool diversion for a Saturday afternoon at the mall.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Extreme Days
    The lack of profanity or even alcohol (when in Mexico, the gang downs shots of hot sauce, not tequila) makes the film suitable for all ages, except for those old enough to want actual content in their movies.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    To say that Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey delivers everything a slasher movie should is higher praise than it used to be. Marketing alone would have guaranteed this movie a certain percentage of curious eyeballs, but Frake-Waterfield made sure that what genre fans see is everything they expected.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 40 Luke Y. Thompson
    FeardotCom
    If sudden loud noises, relentless strobe lights, digital hallucinations and mutilated corpses make you jump, and you feel that nothing more is required for a good time at the movies, welcome to Feardotcom.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    The Cookout
    There might have been a decent comedy here if someone had remembered to insert some actual humor.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    My Boss's Daughter
    Director David Zucker has fallen a long way since the days of “Airplane” -- here, he seems to think endless hilarity can be milked from an animatronic owl and a running gag about urination that even the French would reject.
    • Dallas Observer
    • 15 Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    While not entirely successful, at least deserves points for creativity.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    House of the Dead
    Prochnow rocks; nothing else does.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Freddy Got Fingered
    The film is a somewhat disjointed affair that, like the man himself (Green), is occasionally brilliant, frequently repetitive and sometimes merely annoying.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Luke Y. Thompson
    Slackers
    Alas, Slackers sucks. It's so bad Schwartzman can't save it, though he tries mightily; a flash of nudity from Pearl Harbor babe and male-named model-turned-actress James King isn't even worth the price of a video rental down the line.
    • 10 Metascore
    • 10 Luke Y. Thompson
    Whipped
    Hang out at a frat house or sports bar, and you can hear this kind of talk for free.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    State Property
    But there is a saving grace: Seemingly aware of how weak the material was, the filmmakers have filled it with wall-to-wall beautiful naked women in every other scene, complete with a little gratuitous lesbian action. It can't save the film, but it'll keep you from dozing off.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Illusion
    The movie is therefore better than it ought to be, but without Douglas, it ought not to be at all
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Ambush
    Beautifully shot and finely acted movie.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Going By
    By movie's end what began as an occasionally tragic comedy has slowly and effectively become a grand metaphor for the journey of life.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Luke Y. Thompson
    Dirt Boy
    Jeffrey Greeley's loving photography of the wintry landscapes is beautiful, but lead actor Jacob Lee Hedman is nowhere near as charismatic as he needs to be for a film with this few characters.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Luke Y. Thompson
    Sorority Girls' Revenge
    OK, so you can't afford women who'll bare flesh for what you're paying. Then don't make an exploitation film!
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    A Galaxy Far, Far Away
    Of all the various low-budget documentaries chronicling the Star Wars phenomenon, Tariq Jalil's is certainly the most recent. There's not a whole lot else to say about it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Luke Y. Thompson
    Stripped
    There are no stunning revelations herein, but then, that's not why you're going to go see it, is it?
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Luke Y. Thompson
    Freshmen
    The week's most pleasant surprise.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Luke Y. Thompson
    96 Souls
    That some of the super-visions manage to disturb regardless is arguably a testament to writer-director Stanley Jacobs, but he’d have been better off keeping this as his demo reel and showing whatever he does next to the public at large.
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    Unhuman
    If you’re a fan of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, scribes of the later Saw sequels and the Feast trilogy, you know what to expect from them: gore, vomit, red filters, and maybe a half-clever plot twist. If you’re not a fan, it’s best to stay as far away as possible from Unhuman, a cheap-looking, awkwardly calibrated horror-comedy which only the team’s truest devotees could love.
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    About Fate
    Despite the off-putting blandness of its poster, soundtrack, and setup, About Fate proves surprisingly charming. Old pros (especially for their relatively young ages) Mann and Roberts manage to sell some significant character flaws.
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    Blank
    When the all-important moment of catharsis that every good scary movie requires comes around, it’s palpable. But writers, and other creative types, just might feel it a little bit extra.
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    Dig
    The goal of a movie like Dig ought to be simple: keep ratcheting up the tension to the point that when our main character(s) finally turn the tables, it’s hugely cathartic. Unfortunately, the “ratcheting” part is where Dig fails to hit paydirt.
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    The Last Manhunt
    Momoa’s clearly abetting a passion project here, but unfortunately, Camargo hasn’t managed to capture a similar passion from his main cast.
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    Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
    It certainly captures a side of the man, and maybe that’s all anyone would ask of it. But it’s hard to shake the feeling there’s an even better movie waiting to be made from all this material.
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    How to Rob a Bank
    Where visuals of certain events are unavailable, like Scurlock writing in his journal at night, fully colored and animated storyboards fill in the gaps. It’s an odd semi-glorification, even as How To Rob A Bank throws in a few token mentions of robbery survivors with PTSD at the end, and offers a sense that Scurlock fell into the Butch Cassidy trap of being so hooked on robberies he never knew when to quit.
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